real moms {sharing} all things fabulous
Ok, so I’m not typically one to skip holidays. It frustrates me that stores often have Christmas stuff out before July 4th. It makes me sad that Thanksgiving Day has been swallowed up by the chaos of Christmas. That being said, I just realized that we have less than 9 weeks until Christmas! I also…
I had forgotten all about it until I saw a new, fancy version of an old favorite. When we were in middle school my friends and I had tons of rubber band bracelets. We’d stretch it out over one of the folders in our Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper and write little messages to one…
Do you have a little foodie in your house? Or maybe you have a child who eats nothing but chicken nuggets and pizza. Either way, the Phoebe G. Green books are going to be fun reads for them. In the first book, a new girl from France moves to Phoebe’s school and she notices that…
I’ve come to decide that in life there are a few things that people either love or hate. A few things which, for some unknown reason, there is no middle ground. Case in point: pumpkin everything. It seems that in the last few years pumpkins have taken over fall. I’m sure the pumpkin farmers are…
Let’s pretend that you and I are out to dinner with a big group of mom-friends, maybe 20 or so people. We sit around and talk about how hard it is to be a parent, and we toss out our woes and soothe each other’s worries. We share about repetitive struggles with one of our…
A few years ago I designed a insta-wall in my house. I used washi tape to adhere some of my favorite photos to the wall in a giant grid. Since then I’ve been fascinated with washi. If you’ve never heard of it before, it’s tape that’s made from washi paper, a handmade all-natural Japanese paper….
I have two boys and two girls. My girls love to wear matching outfits. My boys actually like to match too. (I doubt that will last much longer, but it’s adorable and I’m not going to stop them). Let me tell you: finding matching girls outfits is a lot easier than finding matching boy outfits!…
With soccer season upon us, it’s a great time to put that slow cooker to use! So far it’s not quite cool enough here to have soup. Although that is my favorite when we’ve been out in the cold and our noses’ and toes’ are all frozen. For now we’re doing simple suppers like roast…
One of our favorite things to do in homeschool is to incorporate our music lessons with our art lessons. We recently did a month-long project on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and while we were doing that we made a quadtiptych, one picture spread out over 4 panels. I originally wanted to do it on canvas, but…
We just returned from a looooong drive with 4 children. Before we had children, we could make this drive in about 10 hours, and that 10 hours could occur in one day. Now that we have 4 incredibly loud and cabin-fever-hysteric children with the smallest bladders on the planet, the same drive now takes us…
I’ve been fascinated with wood pallet projects for a while. I’ve probably pinned a hundred different ideas, but I just haven’t ever gotten around to actually doing them yet! But I was inspired by an outdoor seating area that my cousin just finished and then the DIY Wood Pallet Projects book by Karah Bunde showed…
If you give a boy a cup and some rubber bands, he’ll make a rocket. If he makes a rocket, he’ll want to make a slingshot, too. If you let him make a slingshot, he’ll want to make more rubber band crafts. This book, Rubber Band Mania, is full of fun ideas for boys and…